Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-23
FORT WORTH.
The Gem of the Lone Star State
With Magnificent Rail-
road System,
An Ever Increasing Ascendancy Main
tanned in Her JObbjBg Interests
and General Growth.
y-or the Location of Manufacturing Indus
tries an Unsurpassed and Inviting
Fled Presented.
Chicagr Inter ocean

fsg new south so thereris a new Texas,
snd a new metropolis which has sup
pianted the old methods and the distress
ing fogvism which prevailed in this state
afteen or twenty years ago. Texas was
then the abiding place of adventures and
those who cleft their country for their
cOu0tTy's good" The bOwie-knife and
sjx-si0oter hJurished with alarming pain
fglness, and the frequency with which
murders were committee and unpublished
msde Texas for the time being the syn
OWN # crime ia all its hiieOus phases of
revolving cruelty. The Texas of TO-DAY
IS an entirely different section 1t is
magnificent empire, dotted over its
fertile bosom with progressive toWns
peOped with energetic, enter
Drising merchants, whose sole aim and
ambition is tC advance TO the apex of
commercial prosperity. LaWlessness and
crime has beer buried beyond resurreC-
ton in the oblivion of the dead past
order, law, sObTiety prevail in all sec
tons Of the state. The record of crime
IN the state exhibit smaller percentage
of miedeeds for the year 1886 than in any
other portion of the country with an equal
number OF inhabitants.
Northern capital aud enterprise has
contributed in large measure to the sue
Cessful up5uilding of the country, and
the influx Of emIgrantS from the prairie
states Of the west has tended to the de-
velOpment. up to the highest state of Cul-
tiyation, of n any fertile tr ,cts of land
The sChDol-house and the church, the col
lege and the seminary, are now the main
springs Of knowledge and educational in
Stillment.
Public opinion swGys communities with
the potent force of upright example and
honest endegvor, AMI the pendulum of
moral SuasiOn is an all powerful factor in
regulating aud controlling the vicious
elements
CHARACTERISTICS OF FORT WORTH.
The one great city of the state that has
displayed all the characteristics so preva-
lent in the booming cities of the north
west is Fort Worth, 8 yeritable me-
trOpOlis, q young commercial giant
snG railroad center which
seemingly enc relies with its many
bands of steel the entire state. It's growth
has been unprecedented in the history Of
Texas, and is marvellous in the extreme
In 1876 it was a mere village of 1900
people. In 1887 it has sc, 600, and bids
lair in the next decade to have Is 900.
The taxable valuation, which ten years
ago was $500 600, has grown to 81, $780,
600. In 1876 there were two banks in the
city, with combined capital of SIS, 900;
now the city has six sOlld banking institu-
tons, with cash capital and surplus of
81, 500, 600.
The country that lies tributary 20 Fort
Worth covers g vast area, aud the follow /
ing tabUlated aggregate statement of for |
tyseven counties, giving the population (
and assessed valuation in 1870, 1880 and |
1884, tells its own instructive story of the |
remarkable deve, Opment of this rich and |
pOpulOus region:
POPULATE IN IN 1870 ....... ..... 800. So 9I5 !
Population in IS,O..-.......... - .... 325. 764 /
Assessed valuation Ia lssO........ 5 SO 524 U6l /
Assessed valuation in ISSi.......... l6l l35, pa
In addition to these counties there are
many thai were unOrganized when the /
last census was taken, which lie west Of .
Fort Worth, which are rapidly becoming
populous and wealthy, which will eventu-
ally be great feeders to this city.
Fort Worth is the acknowledged
wholesale center for this vast region, and
aside from eastern competition does an
immense trade IN this important terri
tory, which is increasing annually in ma
teTial proportions. Her jDbbmg houses
ere mammoth concerns, carrying heavy
stocks Of goods, employing shrewd and
energetic representatives, and the sg-
greg4te sales run up into the millions
yearly.
IS railroad center Fort Worth is par
excellence the central point geographic
calIv for the natural distribution of good
and mas magnificent system of railway,
which covers all the important and grow
ing sections Of this vast empire Of wealth.
II possesses undoubtedly the most
complete network Of railroads in the !
state, which tap the best por-
tjoas Of her outlying territory. Fort
Worth has al present eleven outlets, and
another year will witness an addition TO
this splendid system Of inter COmmuni-
cation Her railroads pierce all points of
the compass, and are unqueStiOnaOly the :
hsrbiugers of new era Of uneXampled
prosp .Tity and development for this mar
yelous city Fort Worth possesses now
the Texas and Pacific, the Missouri Pacific,
@ uN, Colorado and Santa Fe, + TT Worth ]
and Denver, Fort Worth and New Or
leans, AtChisOn, Topeka and Santa Fe,
TrsnSC influential division Texas and Pa
ciic, besides 8 number Of other impor-
tant projected railroads now being ex-
tended or partially built. The tosal sub !
sides given th-se roads by the energetic ]
citizens of Fort Worth amounted to $780, !
600, besides q land subsidy amounting in !
value to $500 900.
THE FORT WORTH AND DENVER.
This road is Fort Worth enterprise I
Il was chartered under the laws Of
the state of Colorado May &c, s
1873, but work on its construction {
was DELAYED until near the close Of the |
year 1881. At this time the Texas and :
Pacific had passed on west; the Missouri
Pacific with its leased lines were running E
north and south through the city, and the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe was ready
to commence business here. TRe work was |
commenced by the Texas aBd Colorado I
Railway Improvement Company, and c
Morgan Jones Of this city, now president
If the road, was one of the leading spirits
n the enterprise. The citizens gave this e
road bonus of Sl2 900 with which to :
right of way 10 the county 7
inc. I
The road IS now built and operated to t
Quanah, l9l miles from this city, through 9
)ne of the most fertile sections in the Q
tate. S
THU .TCuUsON TOpFEG AVN SAINT. Ep I